NEW RESEARCH 🔔🔔🔔: What are the benefits of true crime media attention, according to co-victims? Dr. Kelli Boling and I interviewed 20 loved ones of harmed and/or missing people to find out.

I haven’t been as active here as I’d like, but I wanted to share that I received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Criminal Justice! I am so excited for this next chapter.

Something I’m being intentional about is enjoying my breaks. I did work this winter break (two R&Rs and a new paper completed/submitted), but I also traveled to Hawaii! Here are two of my fave pics!

This a very sad story. I was interviewed by The Guardian about missing woman Hannah Kobayashi and the theories surrounding her case.

amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I am so excited to have reached 500 citations!

I am thankful to get to do this work and focus my efforts on media and crime, domestic violence, and women’s issues in the criminal justice system. I am also thankful for my fabulous co-authors/colleagues.

How lucky am I that I get to work in a place so beautiful #SacState

It was an incredible ASC conference in San Francisco! It was so great to see so many friends and colleagues! I presented in 4 different conference events (roundtables, paper presentations, workshops) across the four days!

I’m exhausted but thankful.

Huge news in California. The Ebony Alert legislation has been signed. This represents progress toward finding missing Black children and women, who go missing at high rates. Happy to see this news today.

Today my research brief on the media portrayal of the death of US Army soldier Vanessa Guillén was published by the Crime Victims’ Institute at Sam Houston State. As always, my thoughts are with Vanessa and her family.

Link: dev.cjcenter.org/_files/cvi/M...